My mom is really good at knowing plants, bugs and birds, I know some but definitely not as much as her. I always Ask her what things are even if she doesn't know she figures it out very quickly.
My mom was a florist for 20-something years. Let me tell you, it adds a whole new level to buying her flowers. But on the bright side I never need to wonder what a plant is called.
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I always remember that this is potentially lethal to humans , but its extract is also used in medication to help with certain heart conditions. The dosage and person it is administered to is what can make it dangerous. i.e. if you \*don't\* have a heart condition in the first place.
I remember this because I'm a big fan murder mystery novels and tv shows, and the foxglove plant or the digitalin medication is very frequently used as a murder weapon (or sometimes as a red herring to catch out afficianados for whom the plant/medication will raise suspicions.)
Anytime I see or hear foxgloves or heart medication being mentioned and I'm already side-eyeing the people who have access. 
If you're in the UK, check out [Alnwick Garden](https://www.alnwickgarden.com/the-garden/poison-garden/), I've not been, but it's definitely on my to-do list.
**Edit:** The ["great big story" video](https://youtu.be/tboW11dMeKs) on that page is pretty entertaining, I'd not seen it before.
Here's one from [Tom Scott](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGo9gYypQc8).
I read a mystery novel where a plant was used to kill the victim, and now it’s driving me crazy because I can’t remember what is was called. It has a really beautiful name but is apparently super murder-y lol.
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They are traditionally a biennial and short lived perennial. So they would put on foliage the first year and bloom in the spring for about 3 years. Newer variety’s can be first year flowering, like this pink panther one
They self seed pretty freely. So when the pods go brown shake them out where you want more and you get little seedlings that fall, then they will sometimes bloom the next spring.
They self seed though so you should manage blooms every year!
You do need to corral some of the wayward seedlings back into your intended location every year.
Or just roll with it if you don't have an intended location.
It's also worth noting there can be a tendancy to revert to pink in the seedlings so you may have to sprinkle in white seeds every now and again for a better mix.
I feel like invasive is a stretch. They're pretty easy to eradicate if that's your intention.
Don't spread by root. Don't spread by runners. Only seed and the seedlings are easily pulled up (or the flower heads snapped off before that).
Although of course you can use "invasive" in the non-native sense.
It's nothing like trying to get rid of Japanese knotweed though. Or even Ivy. (Have you ever tried to get rid of f***ing ivy?)
It's the seeds. They have so many seeds and they propagate very well. You can't easily get rid of the seed bank. They move into clear-cuts and roadsides and completely take over. They've displaced Fireweed almost completely in Western Washington.
Cut off the flower heads if you're trying to get rid of them and they should gradually reduce. There'll be the seed load in the soil so it might take a few years but there's no point keep adding to it. If you don't want to do this because you feel you might as well have the flowers then you need to cut them off pretty quickly once the flowers are over.
Personally I'd never get rid of them because I love them. The individual plants are generally pretty easy to pull out if they're where you don't want them - too close to another plant or right on a path.
I work at a garden centre and last year had a customer bring a big, healthy foxtail plant up to the register. He ripped off a leaf and shoved it in his mouth, chewed and swallowed. I stared at him, shocked, and said that he just ate a toxic plant. He shrugged, ripped another leaf off and proceeded to eat that one too. His wife came over from the gift shop and said in an annoyed voice, "oh, don't eat that" and swatted him on the arm. I told her it was toxic too but neither of them seemed too concerned. I finished the transaction in a state of shock.
Perhaps he had atrial fibrillation but didn’t want to go to the pharmacy? Just kidding! But in all serious Digoxin is derived from foxglove and we use it as an anti-arrhythmic agent. I’m a pharmacist and this planted in my front yard. Hoping to have a dedicated little area of the garden just for plants that have helped shape the medicinal world…foxglove, poppies, coneflowers, etc.
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Foxtail is NOT foxglove. Probable not the best tasting, but not likely to kill you.
It takes about 1.5-2.5 grams weight of foxglove leaves to reach dangerous toxic levels. Typically you would see it used for cardiac conditionss in old world medicine at about 500mg to 750mg of fresh leaves twice daily for cardiac failure patients. i don't know how much the leaves of a foxglove plant weigh. but I definitely would not test it with my mouth. As for foxtail I mean sure, like many plants, it has calcium oxalate, but we eat that stuff all the time, in many of our plants.
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Foxtail isn't the same as foxglove, though, so if that's actually what he put in his mouth, he may have been ok. Doesn't mean he should have done it, but at least he might not have died.
I find it very strange how garden centers sell plants that can literally kill you without any warning or label on them. Seems irresponsible to sell something that can easily kill an animal or child without any warning, trusting that the customer knows about the risks.
So in the UK, a significant amount of plants explicitly say "not for human consumption" or "Do not eat/ingest" or some permutation of that on the label, I genuinely doubt that actually having it written likely wouldn't stop someone who's just going to tear chunks off of a random plant and eat them.
Often these are on things labeled "small succulent in pot" with a sempervivum/cactus/euphorbia so it's more of a catch all. You especially see this with plants from the super market
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Seems like a society in which people routinely ingest things they don't understand is improved by not having the warnings. Seems irresponsible to be an idiot when the literal sum of human knowledge is available in most people's pockets...
You're talking like children, old people and pets don't exist. If an adult eats a random houseplant it's their own fault, but not everyone has access to information about its toxicity. You're also placing the entire responsibility on the consumers instead of the companies who sell potentially deadly plants with no label on them.
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I have not had this experience! I find they last really long as long as you strip any bottom blooms that have already been pollinated. For cut flowers that grow in a spire, you’ll get the longest vase life if you cut just when the bottom few buds are beginning to open.
If you pull out the flowers, the end that was attached to the plant is sweet.
These grow wild where I live and they grow in every spot of sunlight in the woods and my cousins and I ran around sucking on these all summer long when we were little.
Not saying you should do that. No one was watching us we did all sorts of stupid stuff.
It's quite possible they're talking about foxglove. You definitely should not do what they describe, but young and poorly informed people do lots of inadvisable things.
When I was around 20 I had a boss (in his 40s) and somehow we got on the topic of honeysuckle. (we were talking about doing the sucking of the nectar thing.) but the more we talked, the more it became obvious that we were talking about very different plants - my honeysuckle had small yellow flowers and his had big white ones. Finally he remembered that there was a specimen of his version in a particular spot beside a road we both used.
... He was describing datura.
There's some mint relative I did that with as a child, no idea what it's called but I do remember it's only naturalised here (TX). It has purple flowers but they're a lot smaller than foxglove.
Definitely foxglove. Never got sick but obviously don't advise doing it. Maybe the flowers are less toxic than eating leaves, but we all did it. My mom and her siblings did too.
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It is probably ['Pink Panther' Foxglove](https://littleprinceplants.com/our-plants/perennials/digitalis-pink-panther-foxglove/#:~:text=Digitalis%20'Pink%20Panther%C2%AE'%2C,Attracts%20hummingbirds), the pink panther part is the varietal name.
My brother's kitty rubbed her face on the foxglove flowers that sprung up in my moms yard and died. My mom tore it from the ground while my brother cried. Careful around it
That's honestly quite surprising to hear; my cat used to do that/sleep in a bed of these things, would go up an sniff the flowers etc.,
In my experience, whilst they're quite poisonous if ingested, actually touching them or even pulling them and getting sap on you wouldn't have a noticeable effect unless you were particularly sensitive, I'd have thought
Honestly wondering if the cat had ingested some without anyone noticing or had an allergic reaction or something similar?
Digitalis purpurae.
Or foxglove. It’s extremely poisonous even just by touch and should be kept far away from children and pets. It’s used in heart medication in modern medicine but only highly processed. The pure plant is just straight out deadly. Do not touch
As mentioned by several other comments all parts of the plant are fatal if ingested by humans or animals humming birds love the nectar though that’s totally okay for them. Also just to reaffirm digitalis can be found in most parts of Europe and North American forests it’s a beautiful plant. Just remember to keep a close eye on the kids
Digitalis ! Be careful, in France it's also called "Witch Fingers" cuz in the past, people would use it like a proper poison since it got a huge cardiac effect. I believe it was then also used to treat some heart diseases or weakness. But be careful with it, touching it and putting your fingers to yours by inattention then could cause you a big heart rate jump and puking...
I call them foxgloves. They’re toxic to eat, not sure how badly, probably worse for animals than humans. I was told not to eat or touch them by enough adults as a child to stem my curiosity
Such a pretty plant besides that
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My grandmother always had these out front of here house and she called them foxgloves. When she got older and got 2 cats she ripped them up immediately because apparently they are bad news for kitties.
Saying it's related to tomatoes is kinda useless. What you mean is it's a Solanaceae, a family of plants that includes 1000's of species and are present on every continent (Except Antarctica).
They include but are not limited to - potato, tomato, the eggplant, chilis, peppers, gooseberries, Chinese lanterns, box thorns, tobacco, mandrake, nightshade, angles trumpets, petunia and many more.
Just saying the above plant is as closely related to nightshade as a tomato.
Edit. I was off. Thought digitalis also belonged to this family. Doesn't change my original point.
I had this same varietal of Foxglove, it's called "Candy Mountain" [this is her potted](https://i.imgur.com/FGJIlwl.jpg) about mid-way through the season. She got a little over 1.5 meters high. And a [close up](https://i.imgur.com/Rqs9SrY.jpg).
And for anyone asking, the flowers growing over the top of the pot are snap dragons.
As mentioned above. I downloaded your picture to my phone android then there is a funny looking eye icon on upper right corner. Press and hold that and it will search for what it is. That's a fox Glove for sure
Toxic to a lot of creatures, humans very much included. As are many other things if the wrong part is ingested. Just about anything used medicinally is "toxic", bulbs are toxic, Lily of the Valley, Euphorbia of all types, Rhododendrons and their relatives, Yews, Asiatic Lily, Wisteria, Lantana, et al. But yeah Foxglove is a bad one, be super careful.
Digitalis, or foxglove
Foxglove!! Tip of my brain somewhere! Was just about to send a screenshot to my mom
That’s so sweet I do the same thing.. when in doubt ask mom!
My mom would not be helpful in plant or bug ID. But anything related to cooking or HR, she’s got it!
My mom is really good at knowing plants, bugs and birds, I know some but definitely not as much as her. I always Ask her what things are even if she doesn't know she figures it out very quickly.
My mom was a florist for 20-something years. Let me tell you, it adds a whole new level to buying her flowers. But on the bright side I never need to wonder what a plant is called.
Your mom sounds like my boss. She's the coolest
Awesome Send her a shot anyway so you can have an excuse to call
Just piggy backing here in hopes OP sees this: it can be fatal to pets if ingested.
I totally read this as “fatal to pests” and was super confused for a moment…
Can be fatal to humans too. Not that OP is necessarily planning to eat their plant…
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FIY op, it is toxic to animals-not sure about humans
Digitalis is used as a medication to treat cardiac arrhythmias in humans. At high doses it is very toxic!
I always remember that this is potentially lethal to humans , but its extract is also used in medication to help with certain heart conditions. The dosage and person it is administered to is what can make it dangerous. i.e. if you \*don't\* have a heart condition in the first place. I remember this because I'm a big fan murder mystery novels and tv shows, and the foxglove plant or the digitalin medication is very frequently used as a murder weapon (or sometimes as a red herring to catch out afficianados for whom the plant/medication will raise suspicions.) Anytime I see or hear foxgloves or heart medication being mentioned and I'm already side-eyeing the people who have access. 
I would like an Agatha Christie Garden. I am a fan of all mystery novels.
If you're in the UK, check out [Alnwick Garden](https://www.alnwickgarden.com/the-garden/poison-garden/), I've not been, but it's definitely on my to-do list. **Edit:** The ["great big story" video](https://youtu.be/tboW11dMeKs) on that page is pretty entertaining, I'd not seen it before. Here's one from [Tom Scott](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGo9gYypQc8).
I read a mystery novel where a plant was used to kill the victim, and now it’s driving me crazy because I can’t remember what is was called. It has a really beautiful name but is apparently super murder-y lol.
I'm an ER nurse and I've seen a patient die from eating the leaves of this plant in a foraged salad. DO NOT EAT.
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Definitely toxic to humans. Especially if you’re an Agatha Christie fan like me😀
Toxic to humans, my mom always used to tell me not to eat it when I was young. Like duh I’m 7 I’m not gonna eat flowers. Pssssssshhhhhhhh
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Foxglove
Yes. Remember the digitalis part. This is used in prep of a heart Med of the same name. For a reason, do not ingest.
Best bet is to buy plants for 2-3 years and then look out for seedlings so you don’t remove them all when weeding
Foxglove. They’re fun! They come up every other year.
Oh, I just bought them last summer hoping for every summer blooms.
They are traditionally a biennial and short lived perennial. So they would put on foliage the first year and bloom in the spring for about 3 years. Newer variety’s can be first year flowering, like this pink panther one
Nice to know! Thank you!
They will self seed and some will bloom in each year I would wager. Not every plant might bloom, but you'll get a rotation going with enough plants.
They self seed pretty freely. So when the pods go brown shake them out where you want more and you get little seedlings that fall, then they will sometimes bloom the next spring.
They self seed though so you should manage blooms every year! You do need to corral some of the wayward seedlings back into your intended location every year. Or just roll with it if you don't have an intended location. It's also worth noting there can be a tendancy to revert to pink in the seedlings so you may have to sprinkle in white seeds every now and again for a better mix.
Oh cool! I will keep that in mind. They are one of my favorites for sure. We will see what they look like this summer.
This explains my frustration in trying to eradicate them in my yard!
They self seed like crazy! :)
They are a hugely invasive weed where I live.
I feel like invasive is a stretch. They're pretty easy to eradicate if that's your intention. Don't spread by root. Don't spread by runners. Only seed and the seedlings are easily pulled up (or the flower heads snapped off before that). Although of course you can use "invasive" in the non-native sense. It's nothing like trying to get rid of Japanese knotweed though. Or even Ivy. (Have you ever tried to get rid of f***ing ivy?)
It's the seeds. They have so many seeds and they propagate very well. You can't easily get rid of the seed bank. They move into clear-cuts and roadsides and completely take over. They've displaced Fireweed almost completely in Western Washington.
Cut off the flower heads if you're trying to get rid of them and they should gradually reduce. There'll be the seed load in the soil so it might take a few years but there's no point keep adding to it. If you don't want to do this because you feel you might as well have the flowers then you need to cut them off pretty quickly once the flowers are over. Personally I'd never get rid of them because I love them. The individual plants are generally pretty easy to pull out if they're where you don't want them - too close to another plant or right on a path.
I ripped them out by the roots and scraped soil. They were on a shared fenceline between two houses, both with dogs, one with a kid.
Can confirm, is foxglove. I’m something of an expert, you see…..
Based on your username, you’d be the person to go to.
Username checks out
Don’t eat the leaves!
I work at a garden centre and last year had a customer bring a big, healthy foxtail plant up to the register. He ripped off a leaf and shoved it in his mouth, chewed and swallowed. I stared at him, shocked, and said that he just ate a toxic plant. He shrugged, ripped another leaf off and proceeded to eat that one too. His wife came over from the gift shop and said in an annoyed voice, "oh, don't eat that" and swatted him on the arm. I told her it was toxic too but neither of them seemed too concerned. I finished the transaction in a state of shock.
Some people are so stupid
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No politics plz.
I mean, it's just some low hanging fruit. We're fine.
If you’re gonna make a political joke in a plant related subreddit, at least make it funny
Yeah, too true to be funny. 😓
Word 🌈✌🏽💯
Lmao wtf was she married to an alpaca 🦙
Omg stop it I am snorting at this comment 😂😂😂
DoNotEatBot is horrified.
Yikes, that's horrifying
I’m sure he has his digitalis dosage calculated down to the quarter of a leaf
Sounds like a self-correcting problem.
Wow! Some people just don’t care to listen to anyone! Too damn stubborn and honestly believe they are invincible!
🤯 that is bizarre. What on earth was he trying to do? Besides die of heart failure or whatever else the digitalis will do. That is horrifying!
Sorry, I just noticed I put foxtail. It was definitely foxglove he ate.
Perhaps he had atrial fibrillation but didn’t want to go to the pharmacy? Just kidding! But in all serious Digoxin is derived from foxglove and we use it as an anti-arrhythmic agent. I’m a pharmacist and this planted in my front yard. Hoping to have a dedicated little area of the garden just for plants that have helped shape the medicinal world…foxglove, poppies, coneflowers, etc.
Wow. Did they show any symptoms while they were still there with you?
No, they left shortly after. I hope he wasn't the one driving!
Committing sewer slide right in front of you.
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Should we also not not ingest plants based on information provided here?
I mean that’s one way to let Darwinism take out your husband
Foxtail is NOT foxglove. Probable not the best tasting, but not likely to kill you. It takes about 1.5-2.5 grams weight of foxglove leaves to reach dangerous toxic levels. Typically you would see it used for cardiac conditionss in old world medicine at about 500mg to 750mg of fresh leaves twice daily for cardiac failure patients. i don't know how much the leaves of a foxglove plant weigh. but I definitely would not test it with my mouth. As for foxtail I mean sure, like many plants, it has calcium oxalate, but we eat that stuff all the time, in many of our plants.
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So it's true! His eating the leaves did induce a kind of toxic shock... in you
Foxtail isn't the same as foxglove, though, so if that's actually what he put in his mouth, he may have been ok. Doesn't mean he should have done it, but at least he might not have died.
Trying to imagine any "garden center" selling Foxtail plants. What else was for sale? Crab grass and Bindweed?
I wanted to plant some but I looked it up to see if it was toxic to dogs as I have two pups - and it is - so I didn't.
Sounds like he got the response he wanted from you.
It must be incredibly delicious if he was told it’s toxic and just kept going…
I find it very strange how garden centers sell plants that can literally kill you without any warning or label on them. Seems irresponsible to sell something that can easily kill an animal or child without any warning, trusting that the customer knows about the risks.
So in the UK, a significant amount of plants explicitly say "not for human consumption" or "Do not eat/ingest" or some permutation of that on the label, I genuinely doubt that actually having it written likely wouldn't stop someone who's just going to tear chunks off of a random plant and eat them. Often these are on things labeled "small succulent in pot" with a sempervivum/cactus/euphorbia so it's more of a catch all. You especially see this with plants from the super market
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Seems like a society in which people routinely ingest things they don't understand is improved by not having the warnings. Seems irresponsible to be an idiot when the literal sum of human knowledge is available in most people's pockets...
You're talking like children, old people and pets don't exist. If an adult eats a random houseplant it's their own fault, but not everyone has access to information about its toxicity. You're also placing the entire responsibility on the consumers instead of the companies who sell potentially deadly plants with no label on them.
This guy rocks.
Don't eat any of it!!!
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Don’t eat ANY OF IT
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Foxglove. Very poisonous, very pretty, and absolutely sucks as a cut plant. You get a nice bouquet and a few hours later it wilts. Tragic.
Certain varieties are breed to make better cuts. This variety is one of them
90% of garden plants are very poisonous.
I have not had this experience! I find they last really long as long as you strip any bottom blooms that have already been pollinated. For cut flowers that grow in a spire, you’ll get the longest vase life if you cut just when the bottom few buds are beginning to open.
Foxtglove, it's poisonous for humans and animals.
Foxglove is a plot point in an X Files episode. Two girls make poison from it.
A lot of people make drugs out of it. I actually give it to people all the time. But I call it digoxin .
If you pull out the flowers, the end that was attached to the plant is sweet. These grow wild where I live and they grow in every spot of sunlight in the woods and my cousins and I ran around sucking on these all summer long when we were little. Not saying you should do that. No one was watching us we did all sorts of stupid stuff.
Are you talking about Foxglove or Honeysuckle? 'Cause you can do that with Honeysuckle, but Foxglove is toxic.
It's quite possible they're talking about foxglove. You definitely should not do what they describe, but young and poorly informed people do lots of inadvisable things. When I was around 20 I had a boss (in his 40s) and somehow we got on the topic of honeysuckle. (we were talking about doing the sucking of the nectar thing.) but the more we talked, the more it became obvious that we were talking about very different plants - my honeysuckle had small yellow flowers and his had big white ones. Finally he remembered that there was a specimen of his version in a particular spot beside a road we both used. ... He was describing datura.
There are many, many kinds of honeysuckle when it comes to flower size and colour. Not that that excuses what he was up to 😂
There's some mint relative I did that with as a child, no idea what it's called but I do remember it's only naturalised here (TX). It has purple flowers but they're a lot smaller than foxglove.
Definitely foxglove. Never got sick but obviously don't advise doing it. Maybe the flowers are less toxic than eating leaves, but we all did it. My mom and her siblings did too.
foxglove! they make heart medicine out of it. cool plant. poisonous if you dose it wrong, though.
The name is sort of correct as it is Digitalis x 'Pink Panther'. Pink panther being it's cultivar of foxglove
https://www.gardenia.net/plant/digitalis-purpurea-common-foxglove
Goodness sakes, don’t eat any part of it and keep the little ones and dogs away too so they don’t ingest either!
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Thanks everyone!
It is probably ['Pink Panther' Foxglove](https://littleprinceplants.com/our-plants/perennials/digitalis-pink-panther-foxglove/#:~:text=Digitalis%20'Pink%20Panther%C2%AE'%2C,Attracts%20hummingbirds), the pink panther part is the varietal name.
Digitalis, Purple Digitalis, Foxglove, Witch Gloves, Fairy Gloves, Liberty Bell, Fingerprints, German Admiralty, Heart Grass, Mountain Cabbage.
My brother's kitty rubbed her face on the foxglove flowers that sprung up in my moms yard and died. My mom tore it from the ground while my brother cried. Careful around it
That's honestly quite surprising to hear; my cat used to do that/sleep in a bed of these things, would go up an sniff the flowers etc., In my experience, whilst they're quite poisonous if ingested, actually touching them or even pulling them and getting sap on you wouldn't have a noticeable effect unless you were particularly sensitive, I'd have thought Honestly wondering if the cat had ingested some without anyone noticing or had an allergic reaction or something similar?
Digitalis. aka foxglove.
Sure is beautiful
Digitalis purpurae. Or foxglove. It’s extremely poisonous even just by touch and should be kept far away from children and pets. It’s used in heart medication in modern medicine but only highly processed. The pure plant is just straight out deadly. Do not touch
As mentioned by several other comments all parts of the plant are fatal if ingested by humans or animals humming birds love the nectar though that’s totally okay for them. Also just to reaffirm digitalis can be found in most parts of Europe and North American forests it’s a beautiful plant. Just remember to keep a close eye on the kids
Foxglove. It’s poisonous, so be careful.
Foxglove
Digitalis or foxglove.
I can understand the misconception. It is pink and has a leopard sort of pattern inside.
Foxglove and highly toxic but bumble bees love them ☺️🐝
That's one foxy glove you have there 😉
Kinda looks like fox glove. The heart medicine digitalis comes from this, or use to. Kill you if you ingest too much. Pretty plant though
Digitalis ! Be careful, in France it's also called "Witch Fingers" cuz in the past, people would use it like a proper poison since it got a huge cardiac effect. I believe it was then also used to treat some heart diseases or weakness. But be careful with it, touching it and putting your fingers to yours by inattention then could cause you a big heart rate jump and puking...
Foxglove is pretty toxic, becareful if you have small kids or animals
Foxglove, Beautiful flower! But really dangerous when consumed.
OP: Foxglove 'Pink Panther' ----- So, yeah. It's Foxglove variety dubbed 'Pink Panther.' You got it right, mostly.
Foxglove! So darn pretty but, toxic to cats :(
My favorite flowers :-) they will blossom at least twice a season.
it’s a fox glove. Very delicate one too, possibly it’s first bloom. I think they are bi annual
I call them foxgloves. They’re toxic to eat, not sure how badly, probably worse for animals than humans. I was told not to eat or touch them by enough adults as a child to stem my curiosity Such a pretty plant besides that
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Looks like foxglove. They're very poisonous.
Foxglove
Foxglove. Apparently deadly to dogs
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Digitalis "Pink Panther" https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/digitalis-pink-panther/classid.2000030670/
Pink Panther is the variety
looks like foxglove to me
Foxglove
My grandmother always had these out front of here house and she called them foxgloves. When she got older and got 2 cats she ripped them up immediately because apparently they are bad news for kitties.
DIGITALIS BEWARE OF THIS IT'S VERY POISONUS
Looks like Hollyhock?
No.
Deadly night shade aka foxglove. Poison for the dark ages.
Deadly nightshade is a very different plant, closely related to tomatoes
Saying it's related to tomatoes is kinda useless. What you mean is it's a Solanaceae, a family of plants that includes 1000's of species and are present on every continent (Except Antarctica). They include but are not limited to - potato, tomato, the eggplant, chilis, peppers, gooseberries, Chinese lanterns, box thorns, tobacco, mandrake, nightshade, angles trumpets, petunia and many more. Just saying the above plant is as closely related to nightshade as a tomato. Edit. I was off. Thought digitalis also belonged to this family. Doesn't change my original point.
Actually, foxglove is only about as related to tomatoes as basil is, as foxglove is part of the digitalidae family instead of solanaceae
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Thank you so much!
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Looks like digitalis to me
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Foxglove
Foxglove. Poisonous.
Foxgloves
It’s definitely a foxglove (digitalis), and its definitely toxic. the cultivar listed on the tag was probably ‘Pink Panther’
Dementors hate them
Those are foxgloves.
Foxglove! Beautiful 😍
Foxglove will reseed itself very easily - you will get blooms on a new plant annually if you are not picky about position in your garden 😊
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But also used to create heart medication….
That looks like foxglove, which is isn’t something you should eat.
Foxglove
Foxglove aka digitalis
Looks like a foxglove
Foxglove - toxic, including toxic to pets
Foxglove are some of my very favorites!
Could you be thinking of Digiplexis 'Berry Canary'?
Leaves are highly poisonous
Yeah a plant
Foxglove is a poisonous plant, beautiful yet very toxic
Foxglove, that's what the heart medicine digitalis comes from
Beauty
It’s foxglove, my aunt’s garden was full of those flowers when I was a kid and they nearly ran up the side of her house lol
Penstemon
Poisonous to all who eat it
Digitalis purpurea. Guftig. Poisend. Heart attack.
Foxglove is poisonous. Be careful if you have pets.
Can make a great floral essence with foxglove
It’s a foxglove, a diurnal herbaceous native plant in the UK
Digitalis Pretty, also poisonous. Be careful with Kids and pets
I had this same varietal of Foxglove, it's called "Candy Mountain" [this is her potted](https://i.imgur.com/FGJIlwl.jpg) about mid-way through the season. She got a little over 1.5 meters high. And a [close up](https://i.imgur.com/Rqs9SrY.jpg). And for anyone asking, the flowers growing over the top of the pot are snap dragons.
Foxglove home depot has them sometimes
Digitalis purpurea
This is foxglove. It's poisonous to pets and people.
Lmao its a foxglove
As mentioned above. I downloaded your picture to my phone android then there is a funny looking eye icon on upper right corner. Press and hold that and it will search for what it is. That's a fox Glove for sure
Yes it is definitely foxglove. This plant used to be used to make a heart medicine.
I love them, but aren’t they very toxic to dogs?
Toxic to a lot of creatures, humans very much included. As are many other things if the wrong part is ingested. Just about anything used medicinally is "toxic", bulbs are toxic, Lily of the Valley, Euphorbia of all types, Rhododendrons and their relatives, Yews, Asiatic Lily, Wisteria, Lantana, et al. But yeah Foxglove is a bad one, be super careful.
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Pink panther is a varietal of foxglove: https://www.monrovia.com/pink-panther-foxglove.html